Ecodesign... as an Innovation-friendly Competence-enhancing Process

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dc.contributor.author	Ney, Caroline Julie	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-02-04T10:26:02Z
dc.date.available	2009-02-04T10:26:02Z
dc.date.issued	2008-10-03T00:00:00Z	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9788792114068	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7118
dc.description.abstract	As sustainable development practices expand among companies, innovation appears more and more as a required path to progress towards the integration of ecological concerns at the very heart of business activities. Ecodesign not only requires this integration but can also be a concrete tool for its implementation (Le Pochat, 2005). Our results show that while implementing ecodesign practices, companies mobilize existing competences, that they combine with new ones. These new competences originate from exploration-orientated external cooperations. This original combination of competences paves the way for an internal research, made mostly of exploitation but still including some exploration projects. Long-term continuous innovation (Verona, Ravasi, 2003) requires an appropriate balance between exploration and exploitation. The litterature refers to this balance as « ambidexterity ». The present paper provides evidence for a competence development process associated to the implementation of ecodesign. By combining contextual and network ambidexterity, this process promotes a continuous stream of innovation.	en_US
dc.format.extent	23 s.	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working paper;2008-04	en_US
dc.title	Ecodesign... as an Innovation-friendly Competence-enhancing Process	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt08okt03 nijemo	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Center for Corporate Social Responsibility
dc.contributor.department	Institut for Interkulturel Kommunikation og Ledelse	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	CBSCSR
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Department of Intercultural Communication and Management	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Center for Corporate Social Responsibility
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	CBSCSR	en_US
dc.idnumber	9788792114068	en_US
dc.publisher.city	København	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2008	en_US